Award-winning Nigerian Author, Novelist, and writer of short stories and fictions, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on Friday marked her 40th birthday. Born on 15th September, 1977 and hails from Abba, Anambra state in Nigeria, the veteran writer has received numerous awards both home and abroad. Her novels include Purple Hibiscus, Half of A Yellow Sun, Americanah, etc. To celebrate one of Nigeria's finest writers, below are 10 awesome and inspiring quotes from Chimamanda! If you don’t understand, ask questions. If you’re uncomfortable… Read more

Chimamanda Ngozi-Adichie’s novel “Americanah” has won the “One Book, One New York” campaign by the Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment and BuzzFeed. The office said on Monday that New Yorkers cast their ballots for the book throughout February and said they wanted millions of residents to read it simultaneously. It stated that the voting which took place in February, were both online and at interactive digital kiosks on subway platforms. The office added that “finally, Americanah was the book most New Yorkers… Read more

Chimamanda Ngozi-Adichie’s bestseller novel ‘Americanah’ has been selected as one of the five award-winning books to be chosen for the ‘One Book One New York’ programme. The concept of ‘One Book One New York’ is an initiative to bring together bookworms in the U.S. largest city to read the same book at the same time. New York City Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment said a committee made up of “the heads of the New York Public Library, the deans… Read more

Edozie Udeze writes on Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Nigeria's literary sensation whose novel Americanah, has just been named by the New York Times as one of the Top Best Books of 2013.The book is also number one on the BBC's list of the Top 10 Books of 2013. IT was the late Professor Chinua Achebe, Africa`s foremost storyteller who first endorsed her immense talent, he described her “as a storyteller who came almost fully made.” With these words, Achebe immediately drew… Read more

This year's Toronto International Film Festival welcomed many actors with more than one film to promote. Chiwetel Ejiofor, who, thanks to his commanding performances in Biyi Bandele's Half of a Yellow Sun and Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave, attracted more attention, among audiences and critics alike, than Benedict Cumberbatch, Jesse Eisenberg, and Colin Firth combined. In Bandele's adaptation of Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's novel, set in Nigeria during the Biafra War, the actor appears as a politically motivated… Read more

Emotions heightened Sunday afternoon during a panel discussion on the Nigeria's emerging film industry which took place at the makeshift filmmaker's lounge in Hyatt Regency, in the ongoing Toronto International Film Festival, Canada. The festival witnessed one of the largest gathering of filmmakers, government officials and Nigerians in the Diaspora in recent times, who seized the opportunity of the official selection of Half of a Yellow Sun, a screen adaptation of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Orange Prize-winning novel of the same title to be… Read more